Episode 32: Compassionate Experimentation

Part 1: Experimental Kindness & Criticism

• As foreshadowed in Part 3 of Self-Love Vs. Self-Acceptance Summer's Summary, I leant into my natural inclinations as a scientist to play with emotional concepts 😅😶
• Probing positive beliefs about self criticism and negatives beliefs about self compassion with sharp pointy sticks 👈 
• [And I'll be damned if I didn't forget about analysing these beliefs before, after avowing my Greatest Accomplishment, and committing to Mindful Anarchy against them! 🤦]
• Authentic confusion about what's 'most kind' and getting primal to gain some clarity; bringing it back to the SCARF Model & comparing myself to my pet goat 🧣🐐
• The truly subtle difference is self-kindness versus self-care... versus self-indulgence & self-sabotage; What the hell is actual Self Care?! 💖💩

Part 2: The More You Know

• Justice; when life gives you lemons... be a dick to yourself and others? 🍋🖕
• Spite-ful or Grate-ful, a reminder of resentment's poisonous nature 🧪😡
• A disciplined epiphany, the mind-numbing impacts of confirmation bias & the power of INTENTION💡💥
• Being hard on myself about not being able to be hard on myself... the sign of a true existentialist 😅

Part 3: In Conclusion

• The dark side of acceptance? 🤔
• It's all about BALANCE and respecting each other's differences and unique pivot points
• To live my authentic Values, in a truly compassionate way, requires self-responsibility & accountability, but it's not a license for punishment... 
• My two critical check points, implemented courtesy of this compassionate experimentation 💖
• What is my Intention? [Am I expecting too much? Am I aligned to my preferred definition of Compassion?]
• Am I accepting my true & genuine Self? [Sans 'shoulds'/'coulds'/shame/judgments]